These agencies have a duty to come together and work with other
groups, organisations and agencies to prevent crime and
disorder. The CSP was formed in response to the Crime and
Disorder Act 1998 as a statutory requirement.

The vision of the Bedford Borough Community Safety Partnership
(CSP) is:

Strategic Assessment

Each year the Bedford Borough Community Safety Partnership
produced a crime and disorder strategic assessment.

The aim of the crime and disorder strategic assessment is to
identify key crime, disorder and anti-social behaviour issues that
affect Bedford Borough. It considers what needs to be
achieved to help improve community safety, including how the
community can feel assured and confident that their concerns and
fears are being addressed.

An evidence based approach is used within the
Strategic Assessment to identify emerging themes for the CSP to
prioritise for action within the Borough.

Partnership Priorities

The CSP has prioritised the following areas:

Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB)

Alcohol and substance related ASB in public places

ASB related hotspots

Hate Crime and related ASB

ASB relating to the Night-time Economy (NTE)

Domestic Abuse (DA)

Supporting communities

Bringing together professionals

Ensure Services deliver appropriate outcomes

Respond to risk to protect the vulnerable

Improve our response

Crimes associated to Vulnerable Groups

Protecting vulnerable adults

Protecting vulnerable children and young persons

The CSP will continue to tackle all the remaining emerging themes
from the SA but they will not have priority.

The 2017-20 Community Safety
Partnership Plan shows how the partnership plans to tackle
these priorities. Strategic Objectives have been developed for each
priority area. Action plans are then created to deliver these
objectives over the next 12 months.

Community Safety Partnership Consultation - 2016

Public consultations form an improtant part of the Partnerships
evaluation process, gathering data around the community's
perception of Crime and ASB and awarenss of emerging issues in both
their local area and the Borough as a whole.

Understand the publc perception of progress in terms of
tackling crime and ASB

Understand what contributes to making people feel safe and
unsafe

Gain an understanding of people's concerns about some of the
underlying issues that impact on crime and ASB

Gain an understanding of people's awareness of new an emerging
issues in the Borough

Understand those issues that cause the greatest level of public
concern

Domestic Homicide Review 2011

Domestic homicide reviews are carried out to make sure lessons
are learned when a person has been killed as a result of domestic
violence (domestic homicide).

In order for these lessons to be learned as widely and
thoroughly as possible, professionals need to understand fully what
happened in each homicide, and most importantly, to identify what
needs to change in order to reduce the risk of such tragedies
happening in the future.